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Alicia Doyle

Director of Music History + Graduate Advisor

Alicia Doyle is the Director of Music History, professor of musicology, and graduate adviser in the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. She is also on the national board of directors for the College Music Society, representing musicology, and is the president of the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the College Music Society. She is a popular pre-concert lecturer, having spoken to audiences of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra, The Los Angeles Bach Festival, and the El Paso Symphony.

Specializing in medieval liturgical music, 20th-century Latin American popular and art music, and music appreciation, Dr. Doyle teaches courses in music history, world music, and music appreciation at California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Doyle received her bachelor’s degree in Music Performance (Horn) from the University of Southern California where she studied with James Decker. She received her master’s degree in Musicology from the University of California at Santa Barbara under the advising of Dr. William Prizer. Her thesis focused on Florentine carnival music from 1500-1510. Dr. Doyle’s Ph.D. was earned at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her dissertation, a study of a tenth-century Aquitanian troper, was completed under the direction of Dr. Alejandro Planchart.

Dr. Doyle is an active scholar and her work in medieval music, world music and music appreciation (and lampshades!) has been published widely. Ranging from the Middle Ages to the present in content, her publications include:

Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference, July 17–20, 2006 at the University of Cambridge (UK): "Issues of Transmission of Tenth-Century Southern French Liturgical Music: Examining the Role of Northern Spain"

College Music Society International Conference, June 13-17, 2005 at the Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain: "El Mariachi Canta: Elements of Mexican Sones in the Music of Silvestre Revueltas and El Grupo de los Cuatro"

32nd Annual Sewanee Medieval Colloquium. April 8, 2005 at the University of the South: "Singing Praise for the Apostle Martial in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries: Whose Music?"

International Congress on Medieval Studies. May 9, 2003 at the University of Western Michigan (Kalamazoo, Michigan): "The Tropes for the Feast of St. Martial and St. Martin in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Aquitania"

Conference held in honor of Alejandro Enrique Planchart. April, 2002 at the University of California at Santa Barbara: "The Sanctus Trope Deus pater ingenitus in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale fonds Latin 1118: Further Evidence of Southern Origin"

American Musicological Society Pacific Southwest Chapter. February 28, 2004 at Scripps College (Claremont, CA): "Borrowing from Martin to Praise Martial: The Usurping of a Repertory" (Refereed)

American Musicological Society Southwest Chapter. April 2002 at the University of Houston (Houston, Texas): "The Sanctus Tropes" in Paris, Bibliothéque Nationale fonds Latin 1118: A Comparative Study of Tenth Century Aquitanian Concordances